Former Police Captain Charged With Assault In Bergen County

BERGEN COUNTY, NJ — A Closter man — identified in media outlets as a former Palisades Park police supervisor — was charged with aggravated assault last Friday, prosecutors said.

Shawn M. Lee, 49, was arrested after he wrapped his hands around another man's neck and jaw in the town of Palisades Park, said the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office.

According to prosecutors, police got a 911 hangup call on Wednesday just after 9:30 p.m.

They responded to a private home in Palisades Park, where they were told that an assault had taken place earlier that day.

The Palisades Park Police Department contacted the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office to help investigate.

The investigation determined that Lee wrapped both of his hands around the neck and jaw of the victim during a dispute that day, prosecutors said.

"The defendant wrapped both hands around the neck of the victim, thereby creating a temporary loss of the function of any bodily member, or organ, or temporary loss of any of the one of the five senses," says the complaint in the case.

On Friday, Lee was arrested in Closter and charged with third-degree aggravated assault.

He was taken to the Bergen County Jail to await a detention hearing in Bergen County Superior Court in Hackensack, prosecutors said.